Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-12-21
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE.

OVER 10000 barrels Of oysters are an
nually shipped to Great Britain from New
York
Is three months time there have been
organized ia the Southern States thirty-one
natural gas and oil companies.
THERE are at present about $50 cotton-ou
mills ia the South, with a capital approx
mating Sll.U00OOO, in which 10000 tons Of
seed are converted into oil.
a CONCESSION has been granted an Amer
lean syndicate by the Chinese Government
10 construct telephone system, with abso-
lutte control for fifty years
A. ~ article Of home manufacture, the
cable employed by the st. Louis cable rail
road Is an object OF interest. II is $1,000
feet long, is in one piece and weighs 100000
pounds.
\ BRIDGEPORT Comm manufacturing
concern - sending large numbers OF u fam
lily button-hole machine to India and Japan,
and one establishment has an order for fifty
sewing machines for Asia.
AMERICANS are taking the lead in the
manufacture of lenses, the Germans yield
ing supremacy in the line of perfect work.
The large institutions Of Europe are order
ing numerous fine astronomical instruments
constructed in this country.
II the manufacture Of glass and steel in
this country, improvements are said 10 have
been achieved through the substitution Of
petroleum for coal as fuel. BY this means,
also, some paper mills claim to have in
creased their product twenty-five per cent.
STATISTICS of exports of iron and steel
products TO all parts of the world have
aggregated in nine months time a, 2SS, $50
worth. In addition to this, sewing ma
chimes TO the value Of s., 67S, 131 have been
sent abroad. Great Britain receiving nearly
one-half the number.
PITTSBURGH steel has gradually taken the
place of the English article, and it not only
is the choice of the American market, but
is also fast gaining favor with foreign
manufacturers, no less than eight Eu-
ropean agencies having been recently es-
tablshed
lT is only question of time, says a young
engineer just from India, when Yankee
methods shall be applied to railway build
ing and agriculture there. Several railway
bridges have already been constructed in
that country on American models, and
there is rising school of the younger
British engineers which favors American
ideas.
THIS country is developing new indus
try in which pine straw or needles are
transformed into fiber or wool and then
spun into yarn, which is woven into carpets
and mating. The peculiar balsamic fra
GRANGE Is retained, and offices and rooms
covered with the carpet give out very
pleasant and no doubt healthful odor The
material is tough and wears fully as well as
the cocoa mating, and is much softer and
more pleasant to the foot.
a CHICAGO man has patented a paper ink
bottle in England. The bottle is construct
ed as follows; A sheet of waterproof paper
Is taken, and is formed into cylinder of the
desired diameter and length. The head
and end constructed with relation to the
diameter of the cylinder are next introduced
and secured in place. The receptacle then
requires only to be provided with lining
of pitch to be in a substantially completed
condition.
THERE was on exhibition in Philadelphia
recently four-horse truck, on which was
an exhibit Of many kinds of paper, nicely
arranged On the canvas-covered sides of
the wagon was First paper made in the
colonies, in $780, at Germantown. In 1776
the entire production for the colonies was
100000, with Philadelphia leading. In 1887
the production for Philadelphia was $780,
600, while for the whole United States,
l,OO mills, the production was over $780,
600 OOOu